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Control panel

Once you've logged in, you'll see the main Quantext Control panel. From here, you can access the main Quantext menu, upload data files and analyse your data. You can also update your personal profile, select the Quantext colour theme, see how often you use Quantext and return straight to the last analysis you were doing.

Uploading and managing data files and running your first analysis

Getting your data into Quantext

Make sure your data is in the correct format for Quantext. Refer first to the Quantext Data File Format Guide for full details of the required format, limitations and caveats.

Click on the + icon (Upload) in the 'Quantext Files' box or click on the Files icon in the menu bar. The File Manager panel will open. Click on the 'Choose file' button and browse to locate the file you want to upload (Quantext files are .xlsx files and must be in the correct format) then click Upload.

File Manager Panel

File selection and the overview tab explained

Quantext analysis

New Analysis Panel

Click on the + icon (New) in the 'Analyses' box in the Control panel or click on the New + icon in the menu bar. The New Analysis panel will open.

Select one or more files to analyse. The files chosen will appear in the Files to analyse list.

Give your analysis a name and click on Run this analysis.

You must select one or more student files to run an analysis and you must name your analysis before you can run it.

New Analysis Panel with files selected for analysis

My Analysis Panel

All your analyses are saved and listed in the My Analyses panel (select Analyses in the main menu bar). This means you can easily review any previous analysis with the same files and settings without having to reselect them.

When you run an analysis you are taken to the the main analysis screen. The number of questions, total characters, words and sentences are provided for each file in the analysis.

Summary analyses are provided for each question (or discussion topic) in the current file at the top of the screen. Scroll down to view the overview tab for each question.

To display the analysis for a different file, click on the drop down file list at the top of the screen.

Summary Analysis Screen

Overview tab explained

Each question or discussion topic in your data has its own analysis. Each element on the overview tab is explained below

Responses

The total number of responses to a question or discussion prompt. Note that if you have uploaded a file containing empty responses, these are not included in the count.

Mean length (words)

The average number of words in all responses. Move your mouse over the histogram to see the number of responses in each response length bin.

Mean sentences/response

Move your mouse over the histogram to see the number of responses in each sentences/response bin.

Most frequent words, bigrams and trigrams

There are 3 basic counts summarised: words, bigrams and trigrams (collectively called ngrams). Click on any of the most frequent words to find the most common bigrams and trigrams which contain that word.

Search for keyword

You can search for any word. You will see the number of occurrences of that word in all the responses along with the most common bigrams and trigrams which contain the search word.(Note: only single words are supported currently. If you try to search search for more than one word or for a phrase no results will be returned in the overview screen. However, you can explore multiword search terms in the explore tab, as described in the next section).

Overview settings

If you click on the settings slider, you can change the default analysis settings for the current question (or topic). Review the section on Quantext Settings for further detail.